Oil-stove for heating purposes



(No Model.)

B. F. GOODRIGH. OIL STOVE FOR HEATING PURPOSES.

Patented Sept. 15, 1891.

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UNITED STATES PATENT FICE.

BENJAMIN F. GOODRIGH, OF HOMER, MICHIGAN.

OIL-STOVE FOR HEATING PURPOSES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 459,531, dated September 15, 1891.

Application filed September 29, 1890. Serial No. 366,487. (No model.) I I To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, BENJAMIN F. GOODRIOH, a citizen of the United States, residing at Homer, county of Calhoun, State of Michigan, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Stoves for Heating Purposes; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

My invention has for its object a new and improved oil-stove for heating purposes; and it consists of the devices and appliances hereinafter specified and claimed, and illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a vertical section embodying my invention, and Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 00 m, Fig. 1.

I carry out my invention as follows:

A represents the base of the stove, Within which is located a burner, preferably a tubular burner B, and an oil-tank O, properly communicating with the burner. IVithin the burner and surrounded thereby I locate a waterreservoir D, which may lead from the base to the upper end of the burner, said water-reservoir being open at its upper end and surmounted by a deflector E, located over the burner, said deflector preferably being perforated, as shown at e.

Between the water-reservoir and the wickchamber B of the burner is an air-space B and an additional air-space B surrounds the wick-chamber. The burner, with its water and oil reservoirs, may be supported in the base of the stove in any suitable manner, as by bracket-arms A. It will be understood that the base of the stove is open for the free passage of air to the burner and other parts of the stove. A cold-air chamber A is formed above and around the oil-reservoir and communicates with the open base. This construction allows a constant circulation of air about the oil-reservoir, whereby it is always kept cool.

The water-reservoir may be provided with anydesired means for filling the same. Thus, for instance, it may be filled through the per forations in the deflector above it.

C is the filter of the 0il-tank.

over the oil-reservoir, the same being perforated, as

shown at f.

Above the burner is located a combustionchamber, preferably constructed in the form of a conical chimney G, in which plates of mica may be engaged, as shown at g. The chimney or combustion-chamber G communicates at its upper end with an additional combustion chamber H. This chamber H is formed by a cylindrical drum H forming the upper portion of the stove. Into this upper chamber H and through the same I conduct air-fines J, preferably four in number. At the base the air fiues are engaged with a collar I, surmounting the base A of the stove and fitting about the base of the chimney G. Said flues communicate through this collar I with the open-air chamber A in the base of the stove. The location of the collarI above the collar F forms an intermediate air-chamber F, through which air is communicated from the base into said fines. At the base of the drum H is another annular plate H forming a closed base at the bottom of the chamber H between the drum and the periphery of the chimney G. The fiues J preferably converge in the upper part of the chamber H over the chimney, in orderthus to receive the concentrated heat from the burner. The lines are engaged in and communicate through an upper annular plate K, located at the top of the drum H, said plate being perforated to allow the passage of the heat from the combustion-chambers.

It will be evident that as the Water-reservoir is located it is adapted to supply vapor to the flame of the burner to assist materially the process of perfect combustion. So, also, it will be seen that the provision of the airfiues promotes a thorough circulation of air therethrough, which, in a heated condition, is discharged, together with the heated air from the combustion-chamber, intothe room.

What I claim as my invention is 1. In an oil-stove, the combination, with a base, of an oil-burner located therein,a drum I-I',locatedabove theburner,andacone-shaped combustion-chamberlocatedabove theburner, communicating with the interior of said drum,

said drum provided with fiuesJ led thereinto and communicating with the exterior thereof, substantially as described.

2. In an oil-stove, the combination, with the base provided with a perforated plate F, of a communicating oil-reservoir and Wick-chamber separated to form separate air-spaces, a plate I, seated upon the plate F and spaced therefrom to form an air-chamber, a chimney supported upon said plate I, flues led through said plate I and communicating with the space F, and a chamber H, surrounding the v upper end of the chimney and embracing the upper portions of the flues which extend en- 5 tirely through it, said chamber provided With hot-air exits, substantially as set forth.

3. In an oil-stove for heating purposes, the combination, with a base, of an oil-burner located therein, an open air-chamber about the oil-reservoir of burner, a combustion-chamber r BENJAMIN F. GOODRIOH.

Witnesses:

N. S. WRIGHT, JOHN F. MILLER. 

